Comments now have their own pages, at /comment/commentID, these are

linked to when someone replies to another comment (>> id), I also fixed
a bug in comment submission where the counter was not incrementing

README.md

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Read the [configuation guide](docs/CONFIG.md) for configuration help (in config.
 * site wide and user specific rss, atom
 * hitcount
 * Markdown syntax in posts
-* Commenting on posts
+* Commenting on posts and replying to other comments
 * site wide custom CSS
 
 # Bugs
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ Read the [configuation guide](docs/CONFIG.md) for configuration help (in config.
     * formatable custom strings
 * inline comments and docs
 * clean up code a bit
-* comment pages?
 * /postID and /userID pages
 * site index
 * Make EJS modification more user friendly

data/example-config.json

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     "timeline_length": 20,
     "enable_hitcount": true,
     "charset": "UTF-8",
-    "root_path": "/home/deadvey/code/web/blogger-webroot/",
+    "root_path": "/home/deadvey/code/web/webroot/",
     "edit_account_base_url": "/edit_account",
     "new_post_url": "/post",
     "signup_url": "/signup",
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
         "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups",
         "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username",
         "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist",
+        "comment_doesnt_exist": "This comment doesn't exist, this could be because the post it was attached to was deleted",
         "delete_account_confirmation": "Delete my account - (I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly)",
         "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password",
         "rss_disabled": "Sorry, RSS is disabled",

example-config.json

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
         "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups",
         "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username",
         "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist",
+        "comment_doesnt_exist": "This comment doesn't exist, this could be because the post it was attached to was deleted",
         "delete_account_confirmation": "I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly",
         "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password",
         "rss_disabled": "Sorry, RSS is disabled",

src/functions.js

@@ -61,6 +61,18 @@ export function get_userID(username) {
 	}
 	return -1 // If user is not present, return -1
 }
+
+export function get_comment(commentID) { // TODO scales like shit
+    const comments = require("../data/comments.json")
+	for (let i = 0; i < comments.comments.length; i++) { // Loop over every post
+        for (let j = 0; j < comments.comments[i].length; j++) { // Then every comment in that post
+            if (comments.comments[i][j]["id"] == commentID) {
+                return comments.comments[i][j]
+            };
+        }
+	}
+	return -1 // If comment is not present, return -1
+}
 // This escapes some potentially dangerous HTML characters with their HTML entities
 // https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html
 // accepts a string
@@ -76,3 +88,13 @@ export function escape_input(input) {
         .replaceAll("%", "&#37;")
     return output
 }
+
+// Render comment content by replacing the >> int with a url link to that comment
+export function render_comment(comment_content) {
+    return comment_content
+            .replaceAll(/>> ([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>> $1</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/>>([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>>$1</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/&gt;&gt; ([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>> $1</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/&gt;&gt;([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1'>>>$1</a>")
+            .replaceAll("\n", "<br/>")
+};

src/server.js

@@ -216,6 +216,30 @@ app.get("/tag/:tag", (req,res) => {
             converter,
         })
 }); // /tag/:tag
+app.get("/comment/:commentID", (req,res) => {
+    const commentID = req.params.commentID;
+    const comment = func.get_comment(commentID)
+    if (comment == -1) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            config,
+            message: config.string.comment_doesnt_exist,
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+        res.render("pages/comment",
+            {
+                config: config,
+                post: posts[comment["id"]],
+                users,
+                comment,
+                fromUnixTime: fromUnixTime,
+                format: format,
+                getUnixTime: getUnixTime,
+                func,
+                converter,
+            })
+    }
+});
 
 
 ///////////////////// Form pages ////////////////////////////
@@ -275,7 +299,7 @@ app.post("/submit_comment", (req,res) => {
         "id": comments.counter,
         "pubdate": unix_timestamp
     };
-    let counter = comments.counter+1;
+    comments.counter += 1;
     comments.comments[req.body.post_index].push(new_comment);
 	fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`, 'utf-8');
 

views/pages/comment.ejs

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+    <head>
+        <%- include('../partials/head'); %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <div id="comment">
+            <%- include("../partials/comment"); %>
+        </div>
+    </body>
+</html>

views/partials/comment.ejs

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 <b><%= comment.name %></b> <%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(comment.pubdate) %> <i>No. <%= comment.id %></i>:<br/>
-<%= comment.content %>
+<%- func.render_comment(comment.content) %>
+<br/>